Louise Glück is the author of numerous books of poetry, including The Seven Ages (Ecco Press, 2001); Vita Nova (1999), winner of The New Yorker Magazine’s Book Award in Poetry; Meadowlands (1996); The Wild Iris (1992), which received the Pulitzer Prize and the Poetry Society of America's William Carlos Williams Award; Ararat (1990), for which she received the Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry; and The Triumph of Achilles (1985), which received the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Boston Globe Literary Press Award, and the Poetry Society of America's Melville Kane Award. She has also published a collection of essays, Proofs and Theories: Essays on Poetry (1994), which won the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for Nonfiction. A chapbook, October, was published by Saraband Books in 2003. Glück’s tenth book of poetry is Averno (FSG), which was nominated for the National Book Award in 2006. Her honors also include the Bollingen Prize in Poetry, the Lannan Literary Award for Poetry, Sara Teasdale Memorial Prize (Wellesley, 1986), M.I.T. Anniversary Medal (2000), and fellowships from the Guggenheim and Rockefeller foundations, and from the National Endowment for the Arts.

Louise Glück taught at Williams College for 20 years and is currently Rosenkranz writer-in-residence at Yale University. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She is a member of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters and has been a Chancellor of The Academy of American Poets. In 2007, Louise Glück was reappointed for a 5-year term as the judge for the Yale Series of Younger Poets. In September 2003, Louise Glück was appointed United States Poet Laureate (2003-2004).

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”There are few living poets whose new poems one always feels eager to read. Louise Glück ranks at the top of the list. Her writing's emotional and rhetorical intensity are beyond dispute.”

— The Washington Post

“Louise Glück is a poet of strong and haunting presence.”

— Helen Vendler, The New Republic